Sample Sentences for
procure
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  • Jem procured some peachtree switches from the back yard, plaited them, and bent them into bones to be covered with dirt.  (source)
    procured = got by special effort
  • Every moment of every day had been filled with tasks, from packing and sorting sacks of flour and freeze-dried food, to procuring permits and arranging plane tickets, to hiring porters and mules.  (source)
    procuring = getting by special effort
  • Does he know what I've got on under this cloak, did he procure it?†  (source)
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  • And we need to procure new accommodations.†  (source)
  • And I know your Mister Wilde is a thief for having procured you.†  (source)
  • Supplies and uniforms need procuring, guards need bribing.†  (source)
  • It's gotten to the point where the Secret Service no longer even checks the names and nationalities of all the women Dave Powers procures for the president.†  (source)
  • He'd been put in charge of something called "military procurement"—though as Mameha went on to explain it, the job sounded like nothing more than a housewife going to the market.†  (source)
  • Unless you wish to be responsible for my missing an urgent meeting with a delegation from the Trade Commission, whose military procurements chief is a General Liang-Somebody-or-other.†  (source)
  • His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs, always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swaggering small boy's.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
  • You'll be our advance scout, and our secret procurer of necessary items.†  (source)
  • 11:27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She procureth" in older English, today we say "She procures."
  • But because they can pass for human, they live in servitude to their hollow brethren, acting as scouts and spies and procurers of flesh.†  (source)
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